If the city may perhaps be said to favor unchastity of thought in the young, the country may certainly be said to favor unchastity of act.
The elaborate investigations of the Committee of Lutheran pastors into sexual morality (_Die Geschlechtich-sittliche Verhaeltnisse im Deutschen Reiche_), published a few years ago, demonstrate amply the sexual freedom in rural Germany, and Moll, who is decidedly of opinion that the country enjoys no relative freedom from sexuality, states (op.cit., pp.

137-139, 239) that even the circulation of obscene books and pictures among school-children seems to be more frequent in small towns and the country than in large cities.

In Russia, where it might be thought that urban and rural conditions offered less contrast than in many countries, the same difference has been observed.

"I do not know," a Russian correspondent writes, "whether Zola in _La Terre_ correctly describes the life of French villages.

But the ways of a Russian village, where I passed part of my childhood, fairly resemble those described by Zola.